and what mobs are you talking about?
for example monsters in orbis temple have dark attributes ,meaning weak to holy.
also quote from rochand boards ,posted by elmar:
"for example in the harnak underground ruins only the element the monsters are strong against is 300. the opposite to that is 220, all other elements 250"
so if monsters have 200+ element resist, running w/o any 300 element weapon is pretty much pointless.a reason i chose holy is because i am human and have no race element,and also holy is the only attribute that other races have no natural resistance too.if i were elf i would have chosen water,or wind if i were de.

the base race of them is humanoid which means earth and they use dark attacks too but the main problem isnt that since half of them use earth and water and half of them use earth and dark
the problem is on the base race of the mob not on the attacks that it uses..if it was like that in hb mobs are dark too but you can do pretty much big damage only with fire and water

according to description of mobs in orbis they have darkness resist, thus making them weak to opposing element,if not stated otherwise in monster description(that's something that i know since elements were introduced in l2).
an examplehttp://****.net/?c=npcdata&a=npc&id=4vqzyw
i'm not contradicting you about race element,since i have little knowledge about that(i know bugs in general are weak to fire,gargoyles to wind,and so on),but what i'm saying makes some sense, doesn't it?

i should buy an apo bow or magic staff first?
are there some strange rules on weapon sa/enchant/element/augument?
for example if i start using attribute stones on the weapon will i be still able to bestow a special ability that weapon?

you should go for bow first since u use cougars 85-90% of the time :] and for sa well.............. first sa on bow ~75kk and i would go with emp on staff since u only have 1 magic skill and reapers would benefit most out of it.

btw getting atri stones now is really hard.
stones are overpriced as **** cos both mentor and hellbound are broken.

will work on sa then.
dmg looks like the best on bow.
dunno if acumen or empower on staff.

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hellbound is not broken you must do quest's /kill mobs to level up hellbound to access othere areas inside its a server wide and need kill 10000's mobs its a shame nobody gose there now as there are easyer places to gain exp fast but for elements farmming deep hellbound rocks

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